AIBU to have had it up to here with quasi-feminist cobblers like this guff

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Good to see the fourth wave of feminism being packaged, commoditised and sold on FB just in time for Christmas.

AIBU to despair? I completely agree we need to let our daughters (and sons) know their worth, grow healthy self esteem and it’s incumbent on us to raise our children to be decent happy human beings but THIS CRAP just leaves me fucking cold.

AIBU to think this is peak bullshit, reinforcing feminism as some kind of passing trend and that the message that our children (daughters) can be astronauts/engineers/rally drivers/heads of state is all very well and good but what about poor Daisy in year 4 who just wants to be a hairdresser?

The page shown in the illustration seems cliched and uninspiring. The 'all women love to eat chocolate' idea is a tiresome stereotype. I'm not sure what the point of the book is supposed to be, really.

There's one that has been annoying me recently. I have no idea why but the combination of felt and feminism really confuses me!

I think it’s the utter twee bullshit that gets to me; it is literally selling feminism back to women for what? To be inspired by the victories of history via the medium of crafts?

Excuse me whilst I go and crochet myself to the railings of Downing St to “raise awareness”

Do people really buy that shit?

Ugh I do hate this kind of trite nonsense. I have seen a couple of tatty devine pieces though that I can't decide if IABU to like, they were released in collaboration with the Fawcett society but still... Has anyone else seen them?

I thought not! No one could possibly think such crap is worth house room, pennies, a single thought.

But I may be about to reduce contact with a friend, she is about 15 years younger than me. She thinks such stuff is great, all pink and glittery and full of trite Life Coach bollocks. She has quite a lot in her front room, her office and all over her social media.

...or what if she just wants to be an actuary?

'Future me' can one day thank 'now me' for not sending her something this shite

Link to this borrow @mrsstrowman

*horror even

Rebel Girls? If that's from the same people as the Rebel Girls book with the story about the trans child, their definitions of girls are distinctly off.

www.tattydevine.com/collections/tatty-devine-x-fawcett-society

I quite like the courage calls to courage brooch.
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It’s all a bit X Factor - if you believe in your dreams you can become a pop star. Until you encounter misogyny, entitlement, pregnancy, childbirth, wifework, terminations, miscarriages, rape, sexual abuse, silencing. Then the slogans ring a bit hollow.

And Rebel Girls is dubious shit.

I like the courage calls to courage thing but I’ll not give a penny to the Fawcett Society until they get their heads out of the TRAs’ backsides.

Ooh I'm surprised, maybe my judgement is not that off. So if I could buy one second hand without giving the money to the Fawcett society it'd be a win..

I quite like the rebel girls books - have 2 DSs and we find the stories all really inspiring. But that activity book looks crap and cliched. Disappointing as the original book is top quality imo.

Millicent Fawcett & Courage calls to courage - great.

The Fawcett Society - not great unless they find the courage to stand up for women as a sex.

Is this really what Millicent Fawcett would want though - pin badges?!

I think as long as you're not only about pin badges and are politically active (I am) it can't hurt, I've got two nieces who say things like football is for boys, anything that can be a conversation starter is something

I go out regularly in my Hands Off My Rights / Adult Human Female stuff (bloody love the hoodie at the moment). It's not nearly all I'm doing but I do feel there's a statement there.

All political movements get co-opted by capitalism

It's dismal. And you're so right, Rightreckoner. It’s all a bit X Factor.

Telling girls to fantasise about walking on Mars is unlikely to have the hoped for effect. I prefer the approach of Michelle Obama, who inspired schoolgirls with her speeches telling them that being smart and working hard at school was super cool. She stressed the nuts and bolts of academic success and the work that underlies it

Too many of these "live the dream" narratives just show the climax - you win X Factor, you walk on Mars - without stressing the million actual steps you're going to have to take to get there. That's why you get these clueless kids who aspire to be pop stars when they can't sing, they're out of tune and don't practice.